Posted on May 31, 2011 in Food Books, Read | 3 comments

Great Food

Great Food
The books in Penguin’s Great Food series might be small but they’re perfectly formed. For these slim little pocket – or handbag – volumes, the publishing house chose twenty writers from a variety of eras, from Samuel Pepys and Eliza Acton to Alexandre Dumas and Claudia Roden. Each of the...
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Posted on May 30, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Cook, Do | 0 comments

Eight Degrees Brewing at the Kildorrery International Food Fair

Eight Degrees Brewing at the Kildorrery International Food Fair
There might be some Sunday mornings when it feels like a good idea to take ten kilos of lamb mince and turn it into enough burgers to feed 400 people but I’m not sure if last Sunday was the one. The Husband was jet-lagged to the eyeballs after arriving back from China the day before, I was wrecked...
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Posted on May 25, 2011 in Cookery Books, Read | 0 comments

Cookery School with recipes by Richard Corrigan

Cookery School with recipes by Richard Corrigan
As a child I spent hours poring over my mother’s cookbooks, particularly the one that had step-by-step photos of techniques like cooking a crab, making hollandaise and divesting an artichoke of its leaves. That book was full of exotic terminology and ingredients which didn’t have much place in...
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Posted on May 23, 2011 in Do | 6 comments

New kitchen time…

New kitchen time…
…well, hopefully! This is what one of the corners used to look like – you can see that life was a little cramped with the washing machine, freezer, microwave and breadmaker all living cheek by jowl. I didn’t have much storage space so the shelves on the left were where I kept baskets of...
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Posted on May 17, 2011 in Eating Out, Storecupboard Specials | 8 comments

Eat Only Irish: Cork buffalo mozzarella and La Cucina’s Irish menu

Eat Only Irish: Cork buffalo mozzarella and La Cucina’s Irish menu
Eat Only Irish? Why of course, when you can pick up the most amazing Irish buffalo mozzarella in Cork’s English Market. The Real Olive Company stall has just started selling the creamiest balls of mozzarella made using raw milk from a herd of water buffalo which are based on the Lynch farm near...
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Posted on May 13, 2011 in Brewing and beer | 4 comments

Eight Degrees Brewing on Bia Beag

Eight Degrees Brewing on Bia Beag
To learn more about the Eight Degrees Brewing branding, Keith Bohanna has a guest post over on Bia Beag written by Erik Johansson from The Green Man Studio. The Husband was chuffed at idea of having a “soft antipodean voice,” wondering, then, if that meant that the Aussie was the brash and loud...
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Posted on May 12, 2011 in Radio, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: Foraging

Lyric fm: Foraging
When the first faint scent of wild garlic wafts through the spring air, many people’s thoughts turn to foraging. And this year there is more of an interest in wild food than ever before, as Copenhagen’s Noma – the menu of which has foraged food at the heart of its menu – has been named as the...
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Posted on May 5, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Eating Out | 6 comments

No beer – but good food: Brewers on the Bay, Gourmet Tart Company, Providence Market Kitchen

No beer – but good food: Brewers on the Bay, Gourmet Tart Company, Providence Market Kitchen
Brewers on the Bay was, for me, the beerfest that got away. The Eight Degrees Brewing boys were all present and correct, complete with their well-received Howling Gale Pale Ale, while Little Missy and I stayed with the Schoolfriend, just half-an-hour south from BOTB central, the Olso in Salthill. Plenty of...
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